Abstract
Singapore is often lauded as a triumph of modernity—a prosperous city created from nothing—based on a logic perversely parallel to that of the Christian doctrine of creatio ex nihilo. However, this brief essay argues that the nationalistic narrative of Singapore as pure, Man-made creation participates in a colonial historiography that not only hides but continues to enact forms of erasure and destruction.
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